Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread David Seira
> I solved my recent problem with aptitude (and apt) by installing bzip2 > package. Until then I was getting rather ridiculous error messages from > aptitude, which in no way indicated that absence of bzip2 was the problem. > Just FYI. The bzip2 package was installed before the problems start.

OT: Osmo und Ferienkalender

2012-05-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 15:16 +0200, wllrt wrote: > Hallo, > > ich nutze auf meinem Netbook [...] > Kann ich das irgendwie einstellen? Hi wllrt, you're using the English list. If you want to write in German, than subscribe to http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ . Hi wllrt, Du nutzt die e

Re: Flock Explanation

2012-05-23 Thread Craig A. Adams
Hi Kushal, Thanks for the assist. On 24/05/2012 07:05 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: If you use the N> FILENAME syntax, the shell will create the file and make descriptor N refer to the named file. You don't have to create the file yourself. Details of this kind of redirection are in the bash man

Re: Flock Explanation

2012-05-23 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Craig A. Adams wrote: > Thank you for the help rbmj. > > > On 23/05/2012 19:02 PM, rbmj wrote: >> >> a lock, in this case). It then exits the subshell (the section >> surrounded by () parens). > > > What is the effect of exit codes in the script code section? Does

Re: a question about SCHED_FIFO on multicores

2012-05-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Matej Kosik wrote: > This "almost-monopolizing" should be safe as long as I run my process on > a CPU where no other process runs. It is easy for user processes. It is not easy for kernel threads. > Affinity of some processes cannot be modified. E.g.: > > [migrate/0]

Re: Re: Kernel Oops when closing the lid on Alienware M11xR3 laptop

2012-05-23 Thread Sylvain Archenault
I tried with kernel 3.0.0 and it's working as well. I reported the bug in the BTS: 674243: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674243 Thanks Sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

kde menu missing back arrow widget

2012-05-23 Thread Cousin Stanley
Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy) kernel 3.2.0-2-686-pae KDE 4.7.4 Opening the kde menus from the K application launcher is missing the back arrow widget under wheezy on this machine It was present and functional but at some point vanished Now if I enter a sub-

Re: Install Squeeze with firmware

2012-05-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 May 2012 at 23:05:29 +0200, Antispammbox-debian wrote: >> Do you have two USB sticks available? Do you have access to a Linux >> machine? > > yes 1. Read Section 4.3.1. at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en 2. Put firmware-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso on your L

Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

2012-05-23 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 24 May 2012 02:45:26 +1200 "Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz" suggested this: >Oh well, best of luck. Don't hesitate to post back if you are still >having problems. Thank very much for your help and that offer Chris, It's much appreciated. Be well, Charlie -- ** ** ** **

Re: mail not sending message

2012-05-23 Thread rjc
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:36:49PM BST, Chris Evans wrote: > I am having trouble getting mail to send the message I attach the script > below > > > > #!/bin/bash > wget http://digitalatoll.com/ > rc=$? > if [[ $rc != 0 ]] ; then > # num...@txt.att.net > SUBJECT="digitalatoll server down"

Re: mail not sending message

2012-05-23 Thread Juan Sierra Pons
2012/5/24 Chris Evans : > I am having trouble getting mail to send the message I attach the script > below > > > > #!/bin/bash > wget http://digitalatoll.com/ > rc=$? > if [[ $rc != 0 ]] ; then >     # num...@txt.att.net >     SUBJECT="digitalatoll server down" >     # Email To ? >     EMAIL="91661

mail not sending message

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Evans
I am having trouble getting mail to send the message I attach the script below #!/bin/bash wget http://digitalatoll.com/ rc=$? if [[ $rc != 0 ]] ; then # num...@txt.att.net SUBJECT="digitalatoll server down" # Email To ? EMAIL="9166126...@txt.att.net" # Email text/message

Re: ssh error - Write failed: Broken pipe

2012-05-23 Thread Gary Dale
On 23/05/12 03:25 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 23/05/12 03:07 PM, elbbit wrote: On 23/05/12 19:46, Gary Dale wrote: This is repeatable 100% of the time. I get this error on my ISP. I have found they are inspecting the internet packets and terminating if there is too little back-and-forth traffic.

Re: [Bulk] Re: ssh error - Write failed: Broken pipe

2012-05-23 Thread Gary Dale
On 23/05/12 04:53 PM, elbbit wrote: On 23/05/12 20:25, Gary Dale wrote: On 23/05/12 03:07 PM, elbbit wrote: On 23/05/12 19:46, Gary Dale wrote: This is repeatable 100% of the time. I get this error on my ISP. I have found they are inspecting the internet packets and terminating if there is t

Re: SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: "aptitude update" fails

2012-05-23 Thread T Elcor
--- On Wed, 5/23/12, Camaleón wrote: > Ah, fine then, it had to be some sort of problem at the > mirrors or > repositories infrastructure... > > > If you're curious, you may want to remove bzip2 and see > what you get. Actually, you were right that it was a problem with the mirrors and repos

Re: ssh error - Write failed: Broken pipe

2012-05-23 Thread elbbit
On 23/05/12 20:25, Gary Dale wrote: > On 23/05/12 03:07 PM, elbbit wrote: >> On 23/05/12 19:46, Gary Dale wrote: >>> This is repeatable 100% of the time. >> I get this error on my ISP. I have found they are inspecting the >> internet packets and terminating if there is too little back-and-forth >>

Re: Kernel Oops when closing the lid on Alienware M11xR3 laptop

2012-05-23 Thread elbbit
Update... With i915 blacklisted or not the problem continues: Full gnome -> close lid -> kernel oops Compiz -> close lid -> kernel oops Bare xorg (just an xterm) -> close lid -> kernel oops >> On Wed, 23 May 2012 06:36:24 +0100, elbbit wrote: >>> When logged into the laptop by OpenSSH the laptop

Re: ssh error - Write failed: Broken pipe

2012-05-23 Thread Gary Dale
On 23/05/12 03:07 PM, elbbit wrote: On 23/05/12 19:46, Gary Dale wrote: This is repeatable 100% of the time. I get this error on my ISP. I have found they are inspecting the internet packets and terminating if there is too little back-and-forth traffic. My ISP is a mobile phone network over 3

Re: mp280

2012-05-23 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:11:58 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 08:54:54 +0200, steef wrote: > > > just a small question: has somebody an experience with the 'canon pixma > > mp 280 printer' under debian; (cups) ? a very cheap and compact printer > > so i am told. > > Google retu

Re: Kernel Oops when closing the lid on Alienware M11xR3 laptop

2012-05-23 Thread elbbit
On 23/05/12 16:55, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 06:36:24 +0100, elbbit wrote: >> On 22/05/12 17:37, Camaleón wrote: >>> That's curious because closing the lid and suspending from menu should >>> both trigger the same command unless >> >> That's what I thought. I put debugging on for t

Re: ssh error - Write failed: Broken pipe

2012-05-23 Thread elbbit
On 23/05/12 19:46, Gary Dale wrote: > This is repeatable 100% of the time. I get this error on my ISP. I have found they are inspecting the internet packets and terminating if there is too little back-and-forth traffic. My ISP is a mobile phone network over 3G so they are probably trying to keep

Re: aptitude changelog gives "You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list"

2012-05-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:41:06 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message : > On Wed, 23 May 2012 19:33:16 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:50:21 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message > > : > > > >> But the question is valid, the message is present so then, can we > >> conside

ssh error - Write failed: Broken pipe

2012-05-23 Thread Gary Dale
I'm connecting at various times to different Debian/Squeeze servers from my Debian/Wheezy workstation using ssh. No matter which server I connect to, I find that if I move a lot of data on the remote server, I get kicked out of my ssh session with a "Write failed: Broken pipe" error. This does

Re: Install Squeeze with firmware

2012-05-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 May 2012 at 19:23:22 +0200, Antispammbox-debian wrote: >> The first step is choosing a language but I think you do not mean that. >> What do you mean by 'stand-by'? There is no response to any key presses? >> >> Please say what medium you used for the iso, how the iso was put on it >> an

Re: Flock Explanation

2012-05-23 Thread Craig A. Adams
Thank you for the help rbmj. On 23/05/2012 19:02 PM, rbmj wrote: a lock, in this case). It then exits the subshell (the section surrounded by () parens). What is the effect of exit codes in the script code section? Does an exit 0(1,2...) exit just the subshell or the entire script? I am worri

Re: mp280

2012-05-23 Thread steef
dear camaleon, thanks for your answer. i found and read it allready. kind reg., steef Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 08:54:54 +0200, steef wrote: just a small question: has somebody an experience with the 'canon pixma mp 280 printer' under debian; (cups) ? a very cheap and compact pr

Re: Verifying integrity of .deb file

2012-05-23 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Uttam, Uttam wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently generating a custom deb file and distributing it over > http. What are the options to verify the integrity of .deb files on the > machine where I have installed the .deb? Do you want to verify the downloaded .deb or do you want to verify th

Re: aptitude changelog gives "You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list"

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 May 2012 19:33:16 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:50:21 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message > : > >> But the question is valid, the message is present so then, can we >> consider the $subject a bug or a feature? > > ..that probably depends on the usefulness of y

Re: Install Squeeze with firmware

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 May 2012 19:21:29 +0200, Antispammbox-debian wrote: (please, keep the replies at the bottom) >>> but the installation starting, but after the first step, do not >>> avances, remains on stand-by. >> >> Where it stops, exactly? In what stage? >> >>> Know how to solve this problem? >> >>

Re: aptitude changelog gives "You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list"

2012-05-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:50:21 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message : > On Wed, 23 May 2012 00:13:20 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 May 2012 17:36:51 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message > > : > > > >> On Tue, 22 May 2012 19:26:49 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >> > >> > On Tue, 2

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:20:55AM +0200, David Seira wrote: > Yes. I have another servers with the same configuration in another places. > > > Under  "/var/lib/apt/lists/" is where the index files are kept. > > What I'd do is delete those: > > i.e. "rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*" then do apt-get update

Re: Install Squeeze with firmware

2012-05-23 Thread Antispammbox-debian
The first step is choosing a language but I think you do not mean that. What do you mean by 'stand-by'? There is no response to any key presses? Please say what medium you used for the iso, how the iso was put on it and which operating system you used to do it. I try install from hdd with im

Re: Install Squeeze with firmware

2012-05-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 May 2012 at 18:05:35 +0200, Antispammbox-debian wrote: > I try to install onto HP Compaq nc600 laptop, -netcard is Brodacom Nextreme- > with firmware nonfree from iso: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/6.0.5/i386/iso-cd/firmware-6.0.5-i386-neti

Re: FS rights error with Samba share

2012-05-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Finally Solved.. !!! it is sooo relaxing i have been working on this for 2 days. even i knew it too but mind was not going that way. but now i will remember it till death :) as i have over-googled this matter. Thanks a million :), On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Juan Sierr

Re: mp280

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 May 2012 08:54:54 +0200, steef wrote: > just a small question: has somebody an experience with the 'canon pixma > mp 280 printer' under debian; (cups) ? a very cheap and compact printer > so i am told. Google returns some hits, for example: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=158

Re: Flock Explanation

2012-05-23 Thread rbmj
On 05/23/2012 12:25 PM, Craig A. Adams wrote: 4. I have no idea what the 200 is. As a blind guess a locking period in seconds or is it an access mode? I believe that the 200 is a file descriptor number. File descriptors are numbers that identify a certain file that is open for reading/writin

Re: Verifying integrity of .deb file

2012-05-23 Thread Uttam
Darac Marjal darac.org.uk> writes: > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:28:35PM +, Uttam wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am currently generating a custom deb file and distributing it over > > http. What are the options to verify the integrity of .deb files on the > > machine where I have installed t

Re: wheezy: non-free latex fonts no longer work

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 22 May 2012 22:40:56 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > some time ago I installed and use some non-free fonts for latex. They > were installed by > > getnonfreefonts-sys --verbose -a > > After the latest texlive update of wheezy some days ago, these fonts do > not work any more: > > [.

Re: Install Squeeze with firmware

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 May 2012 18:05:35 +0200, Antispammbox-debian wrote: > I try to install onto HP Compaq nc600 laptop, -netcard is Brodacom > Nextreme- with firmware nonfree from iso: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including- > firmware/6.0.5/i386/iso-cd/firmware-6.0.5-i386-net

Flock Explanation

2012-05-23 Thread Craig A. Adams
Hi, In my thread about automated backup, flock was recommended as a locking solution. I am trying to get my head around flock, so I am hoping someone can explain. A typical flock example seems to read as follows: ( flock -x -n 200 if [ $? != "0" ]; then echo "Unable to obta

Re: SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: "aptitude update" fails

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 May 2012 08:39:44 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Wed, 5/23/12, Camaleón wrote: > >> Are we still talking about the "Hash Sum mismatch" error? > > I was getting "Hash Sum mismatch" error only when I was going against a > non-US mirror, with a US mirror (which I use by default) I was g

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 04:45:47AM -0700, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Wed, 5/23/12, David Seira wrote: > > > I remove the index files in the directory you said but the > > result is the same: > > I solved my recent problem with aptitude (and apt) by installing bzip2 > package. Until then I was gett

Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:57:34PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > Yes, stty quit "" works!! > > That disables SIGQUIT capability from the keyboard entirely, so the more > usual ^\ also no longer works. Where are you setting it? Short version. -- start an xte

Re: Kernel Oops when closing the lid on Alienware M11xR3 laptop

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 May 2012 06:36:24 +0100, elbbit wrote: > Sorry to hijack the thread, but I suspect this problem may be related to > mine. I've checked the Dell website for OP and our specs are similar > from the same manufacturer. No problem. There's no hijack when talking on the same issue :-) > On

Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 22 May 2012 17:02:56 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:42:14AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> Yes, stty quit "" works!! > > Unfortunately, I'd still like ^\ to generate SIGQUIT, but "stty quit ^\" > also enables ctrl-4 as an alias. The above command completely disa

Re: SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: "aptitude update" fails

2012-05-23 Thread T Elcor
--- On Wed, 5/23/12, Camaleón wrote: > Are we still talking about the "Hash Sum mismatch" error? I was getting "Hash Sum mismatch" error only when I was going against a non-US mirror, with a US mirror (which I use by default) I was getting 404 Not Found. > If so, it makes no sense because: >

Re: FS rights error with Samba share

2012-05-23 Thread Juan Sierra Pons
2012/5/23 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > i know this is not  a place to ask samba related questions but i think > File system rights has some thing to do in this problem that is the > reason i am asking this question here. please bear with me. Thanks > > OK, my samba server was working fine i have 2TB RA

Re: Chromium add-ons & extensions

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 May 2012 09:05:26 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Just a quick check from the group...Is it true that Google is the only > place to get add-ons & extensions for Linux Chromium. Well, being a perpetual beta (development) piece of code I see no point for having a specific place where to

FS rights error with Samba share

2012-05-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i know this is not a place to ask samba related questions but i think File system rights has some thing to do in this problem that is the reason i am asking this question here. please bear with me. Thanks OK, my samba server was working fine i have 2TB RAID1 drive as a storage and had 300gb sata

Re: SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: "aptitude update" fails

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 May 2012 04:54:25 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Fri, 5/18/12, T Elcor wrote: > >> >> Get: 3 http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free >> Translation-en [61.5 kB] >> >> Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main >> Translation-en >> >>   404  Not Found [IP: >> 128.61.240.89 80] > > I wa

Re: aptitude changelog gives "You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list"

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 May 2012 00:13:20 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2012 17:36:51 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message > : > >> On Tue, 22 May 2012 19:26:49 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >> > On Tue, 22 May 2012 16:04:15 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message >> > : >> > >> >> Yes, the o

Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:53:45PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > Thanks for your help Chris and you also Brian. But I think that it's > something to do with my /home partition and I'm going to format it and > reinstall again and see if something changes. Oh well, best of luck. Don't hesitate to post bac

Re: Unidentified Subjects and loads of headers

2012-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 22 May 2012 21:24:30 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Here is the text of what I received: > > Encapsulated message > Unidentified subject! > () If the message is encapsulated is because you requested a digest-style reception when you subscribed to the mailing list. And IIRC we have been

Chromium add-ons & extensions

2012-05-23 Thread John W. Foster
Just a quick check from the group...Is it true that Google is the only place to get add-ons & extensions for Linux Chromium. I have found no references to other sites, just Google. Seems odd to me that there is no Debian repository for these, perhaps that have no Google tools built into them. Or is

Re: How does partman works ?

2012-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
bibop554 wrote: > Hi, > > I made a custom debian CD that installs fully automatically thanks to a > preseed > file. > But i try to understand what happens between the reading of the "recipe" in > the > preseed file and the creation of partitions on the disk, because i don't have > expected parti

Re: How does partman works ?

2012-05-23 Thread songbird
bibop554 wrote: ... > More particularly, i'm looking for the following informations: > - what is the purpose of "parted_server" in package "partman-base" > - how partman finally creates partitions ? I can't see any call to fdisk in > partman source code. > > Also, any documentation about the intern

Osmo und Ferienkalender

2012-05-23 Thread wllrt
Hallo, ich nutze auf meinem Netbook das Programm Osmo und habe von der Seite http://www.sunbird-kalender.de/extension/kalender/ die Feiertage und Ferienkalender herunter geladen. Leider zeigt Osmo mir nur am ersten Ferientag den Beginn der Ferien an, aber nicht täglich die Ferien bzw. das Feriene

Re: Wheezy USB Harddrive install grub2 issues

2012-05-23 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Bob wrote: > On 05/22/2012 04:52 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Bob  wrote: >>> On 05/14/2012 03:45 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Bob    wrote: > > grub-install /dev/sda will install to the MBR correct? >

Re: Playing Video

2012-05-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/05/12 13:41, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > This might not be the correct address for this problem. If it is not, > please direct me appropriately. > > I am trying to play a video. The following code is in Index1.html: > > "file:///home/ethan/Gingy/Converted_Files/DSCF0142.mov

Re: Update-initramfs Most vs Dep

2012-05-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:35 AM, David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 22 May 2012 18:32:55 David Baron wrote: >> On Tuesday 22 May 2012 16:59:30 Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> > David Baron a écrit : >> > > On Tuesday 22 May 2012 02:10:06 Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> > >> You can add the missing required modul

Re: Install unrar on Lenny

2012-05-23 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Tue, 22 May 2012 09:42:05 -0400 Tom H napísal: > >> There's also: >> http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ > > nice tool, but the debian-multimedia.org address was changed > to deb-multimedia.org in last days, while it seems to be accessible via > bot

Re: Update-initramfs Most vs Dep

2012-05-23 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 22 May 2012 18:32:55 David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 22 May 2012 16:59:30 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > David Baron a écrit : > > > On Tuesday 22 May 2012 02:10:06 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > >> You can add the missing required modules in > > >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and rebuild the i

Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?

2012-05-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-05-22 17:02:56 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > Unfortunately, I'd still like ^\ to generate SIGQUIT, but > "stty quit ^\" also enables ctrl-4 as an alias. > > Thanks for the reference -- I'm surprised I never noticed this before. I wonder whether this is recent. One of the side effects is rec

Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?

2012-05-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-05-22 17:02:56 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:42:14AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Yes, stty quit "" works!! > > Unfortunately, I'd still like ^\ to generate SIGQUIT, but > "stty quit ^\" also enables ctrl-4 as an alias. Ctrl-4 generating ^\ is a keyboard conf

Re: Fwd: Re: mp280

2012-05-23 Thread steef
thanks john, this gives me somehow hope. cheers, steef John L. Cooper wrote: Original Message Subject:Re: mp280 Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 07:57:23 -0400 From: John L. Cooper To: debian.li...@home.nl On 05/23/2012 2:54 AM, steef wrote: dear all, just a

SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-23 Thread T Elcor
--- On Mon, 5/14/12, T Elcor wrote: > For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It > starts up, shows the first frame of the video but doesn't > play it further. What's strange, KDE DragonPlayer plays the > same videos fine and I believe DragonPlayer relies on VLC > libraries to pla

Fwd: Re: mp280

2012-05-23 Thread John L. Cooper
Original Message Subject:Re: mp280 Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 07:57:23 -0400 From: John L. Cooper To: debian.li...@home.nl On 05/23/2012 2:54 AM, steef wrote: dear all, just a small question: has somebody an experience with the 'canon pixma mp 280 printer' u

SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: "aptitude update" fails

2012-05-23 Thread T Elcor
--- On Fri, 5/18/12, T Elcor wrote: > >> Get: 3 http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free > Translation-en [61.5 kB] > >> Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main > Translation-en > >>   404  Not Found [IP: > 128.61.240.89 80] I was able to solve the problem by installing bzip2 package. Apparent

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread T Elcor
--- On Wed, 5/23/12, David Seira wrote: > I remove the index files in the directory you said but the > result is the same: I solved my recent problem with aptitude (and apt) by installing bzip2 package. Until then I was getting rather ridiculous error messages from aptitude, which in no way in

Re: Playing Video

2012-05-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:41:47PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > This might not be the correct address for this problem. If it is > not, please direct me appropriately. > > I am trying to play a video. The following code is in Index1.html: > > "file:///home/ethan/Gingy/Conve

Re: Verifying integrity of .deb file

2012-05-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:28:35PM +, Uttam wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently generating a custom deb file and distributing it over > http. What are the options to verify the integrity of .deb files on the > machine where I have installed the .deb? One way to do that would be to set up a re

Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

2012-05-23 Thread neste...@gmail.com
. Sepmnkkl#)))nt from my HTC - Reply message - From: "charlie" To: Subject: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 00:18 On Tue, 22 May 2012 05:44:43 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > For a start, please post exact output of following comma

Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

2012-05-23 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 22 May 2012 23:24:05 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > The idea is to get a log of the faulty session. > > 1) startx as user. > 2) When fails, reboot. > 3) Don't startx as root, but become root and then type: > > grep \(EE\) /var/log/Xorg.0.log warning (EE) error (NI) not implemented (?

Re: Wheezy USB Harddrive install grub2 issues

2012-05-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 May 2012 at 11:09:31 +0800, Bob wrote: > I'm not sure what if anything would be added by remotely installing grub > from a separate environment? The idea is to install GRUB independently of the OS it is being put on. > In the below bug report titled "unbootable when installing on USB

Re: Automatic Backup Script Help

2012-05-23 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Craig A. Adams wrote: > Thank you for the feedback Jon. :-) > > > On 23/05/2012 09:12 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: >> >>   { sleep 60; /data/backups/scripts/backup-disk-1.sh }& >> >> But I don't see why you even need the sleep. > > > I agree. I suspect using sleep will m

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-05-23 Thread Hor Jiun Shyong
Hi, Is this bug (Bug#665000: SUMO2: blank screen after load "radeon" module) related to my issue? As I am using Sumo chip too AMD Llano A6-3670 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics stepping 00 root@szechuan:~#: dmesg | grep -i sumo [ 7.451590] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (SUMO 0x1002:0x9

Fwd: Re: mp280

2012-05-23 Thread steef
sorry rob, a wrong movement and i knobbed your private address. sorry again, steef --- Begin Message --- Rob Hurle wrote: Hi, just a small question: has somebody an experience with the 'canon pixma mp 280 printer' under debian; (cups) ? a very cheap and compact printer so i am told. I have

Recent NFS problems at boot

2012-05-23 Thread Roger Leigh
If you were experiencing problems with hanging for 10 mins at boot until NFS timed out, please could you try the sysvinit/initscripts packages in experimental? Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http:

Re: mp280

2012-05-23 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi, > just a small question: has somebody an experience with the 'canon pixma mp > 280 printer' under debian; (cups) ? a very cheap and compact printer so i am > told. I have experience with a Canon LBP7200C. The printer works well under debian but it was difficult to set up. The driver from Ca

Re: Automatic Backup Script Help

2012-05-23 Thread Craig A. Adams
Thank you for the feedback Jon. :-) On 23/05/2012 09:12 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: { sleep 60; /data/backups/scripts/backup-disk-1.sh }& But I don't see why you even need the sleep. I agree. I suspect using sleep will merely suspend udev operations as well. should be backticks here so that d

Re: Hebrew - SOLVED

2012-05-23 Thread rjc
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 03:58:53AM BST, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > >>> Here is the corrected question: > >>> > >>>"How do I install a Hebrew keyboard and Israeli locale and be > >>>able to switch back and forth between English and Hebrew". > > Dear List - > > Sorry for

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread David Seira
2012/5/22 Chris Bannister : > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 04:30:37PM +0200, David Seira wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> 2012/5/22 Chris Bannister >> >> The result in english (sorry) is: > [...] >> Get:10 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en [912 >> B] >> 59% [10 Translation-en bz

Re: Automatic Backup Script Help

2012-05-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:30:29AM +0200, Craig A. Adams wrote: > /data/backups/scripts/start-disk-1.sh > #!/bin/bash > echo /data/backups/scripts/backup-disk-1.sh | at now + 1 minute > > Is this the correct way to call the backup script, or is there a better way? It doesn't seem like a bad idea;